Sentences with phrase «oceanic heat content»

After reviewing the Levitus et al 2008 papers abstract, (as I do not have access to the paper it's self), I assumed that the data you were referring to was based on some earlier data sets which seemed to demonstrate a ever increasing distributed localized temperature swing, when subsequent data, as indicated in the Levitus et al 2008 suggests a systemic imbalance of oceanic heat content increase in the range of a 0.31 Deg.
I just feel uneasy about accrediting a recent enhanced oceanic heat content to a purely physical process.
This study showed that the predictability of La Niña duration is controlled by the magnitude of initial oceanic heat content anomalies driven by the preceding El Nino.
The influence of anthropogenic forcing has also been detected in various physical systems over the last 50 years, including increases in global oceanic heat content, increases in sea level, shrinking of alpine glaciers, reductions in Arctic sea ice extent, and reductions in spring snow cover (Hegerl et al., 2007).
Unusually warm waters extended to great depth below the storm, creating some of the highest oceanic heat content readings we see for a tropical cyclone — near 150 kJ / cm2 (as shown in the above image)
Our results show that repeated clusters of volcanic eruptions can induce a net negative radiative forcing that results in a centennial and global scale cooling trend via a decline in mixed - layer oceanic heat content.
Just a general observation in regards to the oceanic heat content value in determining global warming.
With a dominant internal component having the structure of the observed warming, and with radiative restoring strong enough to keep the forced component small, how can one keep the very strong radiative restoring from producing heat loss from the oceans totally inconsistent with any measures of changes in oceanic heat content?
''... how can one keep the very strong radiative restoring from producing heat loss from the oceans totally inconsistent with any measures of changes in oceanic heat content
While the specifics of the calculations of heat uptake over the past half century continue to be refined, the sign of the heat uptake, averaged over this period, seems secure — I am not aware of any published estimates that show the oceanic heat content decreasing, on average, over these 50 years.
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